Calvin Klein - Opus & Max Factor - Fantasy Fire

This polish was a present from my friend Ange for my birthday. It's a Calvin Klein polish, that looks almost red in the bottle. On the nail though it's totally a different story. It looks a bit black and only in the sunlight you can see the shimmer.

This is a black jelly base with red shimmer in it. I applied 2 coats but still had bald spots, the formula was a bit glooppy too, hard to manage. Overall I did not like the nail polish. I don't know in terms of durability because I took it off the next day, I found it a bit ugly. Sorry Ange! I have to be honest.

I applied Max Factor Fantasy Fire over it to see how it looks over a dark polish, and I really like it, although, this color brings out more the green part in Fantasy Fire, the previous one was all about the pink.

I've decided to leave the photos small because of the hideous cuticules I have in these pictures, that I only noticed now, when I started working on them, and it's too late to take new pictures. If you really want to see them upclose you can click on the picture, but be warned.

Margaret Astor 070 & Max Factor - Fantasy Fire

As some of you who follow me on Instagram might have noticed, I went to London this weekend, and there they sell Max Factor, because here they don't. We don't have Margaret Astor here either, I got this from my friends when they came over.

So the base is Margaret Astor 070 I think because there was no label on the bottle, only something really small on the cap. It's a blue cream, leaning on the neon side. I applied two coats of this and had some trouble with the application, the formula dragged, and I got stuck with bald spots, but finally I was able to cover them.

I applied on top two coats of Max Factor Fantasy Fire. This is a jelly blue base, very transparent blue, with little duochrome shimmer that shifts from green to pink, looks a bit like Clarins 230, and since I am not crazy to pay 100$ for it, I can settle for this polish, that cost 4£.

Love it, and looks amazing over blue, I am thinking about trying it over black.

L'oreal -Cosmic Green n°807

Ever since these came out I've wanted to try them. These are a Monoprix exclusive I think, because I haven't seen these anywhere else.
Depuis que ces vernis sont sortis j'ai voulu les essayer. Ce sont des exclusivités Monoprix, je crois, puisque je ne les ai pas vu ailleurs. 

This is kind of the low cost nail polish from L'oreal. I love them, small little bottles of all colors it's like a rainbow!! Just look at them:
Je crois que c'est le gamme de vernis low cost de chez L'oreal. Je les adore, des petites bouteilles de toutes les couleurs comme un arc-en-ciel!! Regardez:

But I do find them a bit expensive even for a low cost brand, they're 7€ a 5ml bottle, it's actually more expensive than OPI bottles because those are 14€ for 15ml. The comparison is made between prices here in France.If you make a small calculus 7€/5=1.4€/ml, and if we want to see how much a full bottle would cost 1.4€*15=21€!!!!! That's the price of a Chanel nail polish or Dior!!!
Je les trouve un peu chères même pour un vernis low cost, ils coutent 7€ la bouteille de 5ml, donc si on fait les comptes cela reviens à plus cher qu'une bouteille de OPI à 14€ pour 15ml (chez Sephora en France). Donc si on fait un petit calcul 7€/5=1.4€/ml, et si on veut voir à combien ça revient une bouteille de 15ml 1.4€*15=21€!!!!! Ça c'est le prix d'un vernis Chanel or Dior!!!


So I bought 2 nail polishes from Monoprix, with 10% off, for testing. The first one I am going to introduce to you is Cosmic Green. It's a scarab green, so a duochrome. It goes from green to yellow depending on the light.
J'ai donc acheté 2 vernis chez Monoprix, avec une réduction de 10%, pour les tester. Le premier que je vais vous présenter c'est le Cosmic green. Celui là est un vert scarabée, donc un duochrome. Il passe du vert au jaune en fonction de la lumière.  


This was two coats, and it applied a little streaky. Otherwise the application was pretty good I love the brush!!
Là je porte 2 couches, mais cela fais des traits à l'application. Sinon ç'est pas mal, j'aime bien la brosse.

From what I can tell it is very good quality, hasn't chipped hasn't worn and I have been wearing it for 3 days. It does not shrink with Seche vite either. And here are the photos:
De ce que je me rend compte jusqu'à maintenant le vernis est de bonne qualité cela n'as pas écaillé et ni usé au bout des ongles, depuis 3 jours que je le porte. Et cela n'as pas rétréci avec Seche vite non plus, donc c'est un plus pour moi.  Et voici les photos: